how to pronounce depressed

/dɪpˈɹɛst/

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depressed is pronounced in two syllables

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dɪpɹɛst

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An example use of depressed in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… instance if you're depressed you might …”

meanings of depressed

adjective:

  1. Unhappy; despondent.
  2. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
  3. Suffering from clinical depression.

verb:

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of depress.

depressed frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word depressed occurs in english on average 13.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics depressed can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that depressed can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

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